Fish are regarded as the most low maintenance of pets, but even they need a minimum degree of care, like making sure they’re fed every day and cleaning their tank from time to time. But the Robo-Fish invented by Japanese company Takara Tomy A.R.T.S. makes having a pet fish a carefree job.

Robo-Fish are not only meant to look like real exotic fish, but they also act like them when powered on. They scour the bottom of their tank as if they’re looking for food, and rise to the surface looking for floating bits of food. The only thing that gives them away as robotic fish is a small gap between their tail and the rest of the body, but other than that they look and move like the real deal. People too busy to even throw their live fish some food every once in a while need only go to Amazon and spend $37 for one Robo-Fish. The worst that can happen is the robotic fish runs out of battery, but that’s easily fixable.

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This is the beginning of the end, I tell you! Today they’re rendering exotic fish obsolete, tomorrow it may be you and me. But damn these Robo-Fish are cool!

Oh boy! I want one! If they make robo jellyfish, octopus, mini-sharks, it would be so cool to have a whole tank full of them. And make them solar powered so they feed off the light at the top of the tank.